Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-27
GENERAL EEARKETS,
Eroouce and Provisions.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. sept. 26-Flour opened
quiet and unchanged but firm. Wheat market
strong and active all through the session; firm
cables advancing the market everywhere else
and the big decrease IN the visible supply
We're the STRENGTHENING influence; The close
was p ale above Saturday. No. red cash zoe;
october SO h0T0i5c. closing ut zoe BID; Novem-
Der 7lGHl!G, closing G4c; December Y a
75}Gc, closing at 75l1c; May 19&ds0Hr. closing
at SO1lc. Corn-Iiigher and firm, but quiet ;
October, SSi4 d3S3ac, closing at 3s36c. December
closing at 4Ic bid Oats dun blL
steady; cash 23A $3.50; September 23%c DC
81 GO WHISKY steady ST 81 o. Provisions dull
and weak; pork, Irregular Sl4 75Q 10 10. Lard,
quiet and salea6la 1t S. Sc Dry salt meats,
boxed shoulders 81 6I]s; long clears S. %
boxed shoulders S6 80; long clears 50 I2l, clcar
ribs 50 O0d9 l2%; short clears, 50 l21a09 ..
Ham. So 0OUl4 co. <
CHICAGO, Ill, Sept 2G-The grain rkets
during early part IF the session showed more
INDEPENDENCE of each other than for same
time. Operators appear TO be getting over their
Indifference aud are individually at WORK on
,h6 problem of future prices Cables
were firm; receipts modrrate; the
news regarding crops insignificant AID
pits were moderately active. Wheat opened
some @hat unsteady with an upward tendency,
credited to covering by the shorts, continued
active Throughout the session and ct times was
Considerably excited; + was an Ola fashioned
bail day, prices having been advanced &c
above the closing figures of Saturday. the i'm
provement having b>en gradual at e al '-l6c
al times; It was minated eaGly IA the DAY that
the visible supply would show larger increase
than had been calculated on, and this isduCed
free buying, with the shorts covering freely; by
the time the visible supply was announced
prices had advanced sc, and when the an
nouncemenJ made showed a decrease Of 100
bushels prices were further advanced 35r, and
the CLOSING was decidedly strong; fair part
of trading was composed Of buying for October
and selling for November, December and May
Inv 70 OF n,,1,
Minneapolis were liberal, but small at all other
points. october opened 80 &c higher at 701C,
and sold steadily up TO AZ, az which figure
1t closed May opened at - 80 and after selling
at Tszlc declined to 1S1ac, but later advanced
with other futures ana closed at I3+lC Corn
| fisme-, with traiing quite active, rear futures
| in particular showed considerable strength
opening sales were shade advanced over
closing prices of SATURDAY after which the
| market ruled steady, then became quite active
| and prices advanced 5sSHc for near futures
| and IA &c for May; ruled steady at =. n q.
was %O%G higher for nesr futures anC
| &C higher for May than closing prices of Sat
| urtay, Receipts less than expected and arrivals
| fonto morrow, S25 cars, is not large considering
| they were for forty eight hOurs. In the after
| noon the market sold off &c all around on re
| alt1ing by longs and weakness In wheat DC
| tober opened 4lsc, sold at 4l4c, declined L
| Al d 04l &c, tn en- advanced with siighs chang
TO 42c, receding to Al sc the closing price Ma
| opened at 4iAC, and with tTitllng fluCiuatiO2
| went 20 457sc, closing 44&c. Provisions wer
moderately active but unsettled. Receipts o
hogs were libe. al and prices 5D1Oc lower. Tn
! features of trade 3 shske ouG in OCtobe
short ribs. Almost everybody had Il few, waitin
for Armour or somebody else TO put prices
for them to unload. They found, instead, tina
manipulators had pulled out the pegs. A!
wanted to sell at once. Firsttransactions weT
al 2Oc decline from Saturday, closing q
s. Go, followed by a break with hardly
breathing spell to s. 65, but rallied 10 s. s
and closed finally at PIC below that figure
January opened sc lower at S. 20. Shorts be
| came scared and bought freely and prices &C
yanced 10c TO Sc so, and closed steady at oil
; prices, IS 25a6 PIX. Lard fairly active an
sold lower carly, but rallied and closed stead,
Stock been reduced and shorts were lees IL
clined ~ sell after the first weakness. o.
| tOber sold at S. 1905 - and closed at s. 42t!
~. Pork came in for more attention and %
vnnced l5c from opening prices, Sl2 -
January, but rested finally at close last weel
3 Sl2 go Lead rs futures closed as follow
Wheat-SepteIber, 7Oz.c; october 73Ic; D.
cember. 74c; May, 79%c. Corn-Septem0
9 Also; October 4l>Sc; November n55;; BIZ
O 44Ac. Mess pors Year. 81 W; Jam
airy. So 80 Lard-September Sc ~; Oetobe
3 S. ~; Novber, s. 3735; January Sc Is. Cash gu
| tations: Better den and, prices unchanged. y
! spring whea-, T0t4 a lie; No -, red, 1ilsc; NO
! corn 42c. Mess nors, per bbl. SIS 90 Lar
3 per 100 pounds, S. Isl Short ribs, sides, looa
3 81 SI5e. Dry ssieu shoulders, boxed. s. -
. so; short clear sides, boxed. S seas 50.